Financial Planning

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and client-related news.

U.S. Wealth Management CEO John Napolitano discusses the distinctions between financial planning and wealth management for clients, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

The Social Security Administration confirmed Thursday there will not be a cost of living increase for 2016 due to declines in consumer prices.

U.S. Wealth Management CEO John Napolitano discusses how accountants can talk with their financial planning clients about the recent swings in the stock markets, in an interview with Accounting Today editor-in-chief Dan Hood.

Blucora’s $580 million acquisition of HD Vest Financial Services promises to open up new opportunities for tax professionals who work with the brokerage.

Blucora Inc., the onetime Internet giant known as InfoSpace, agreed to pay $580 million for HD Vest Financial Services, one of the few brokerages that specialize in helping tax advisers become licensed to sell investment products.

Our weekly roundup of tax-related investment strategies and news your clients may be thinking about.

While life insurance can be an income tax-free asset when structured appropriately, the income tax laws may result in the transfer of life insurance policies that are income taxable to both the transferor and the transferee.

Hillary Clinton is proposing a tax on the flash boys that may be unlike any in the world.

The House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee held a hearing Wednesday examining the rising costs of higher education and tax policy, including how tax breaks could be a contributing factor behind spiraling tuition costs.